Topics Started by Mommie Dark

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for those who missed it, a JW headline
by Mommie Dark in
1. jw
2. friends
common sense triumphs occasionally.... !

http://www.mcall.com/html/news/pa/a_pg001a1_jehovah.htm!
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return of the prodigal
by Mommie Dark in
1. jw
2. friends
this morning my oldest son returned home after a month in the county pay-to-stay misdemeanor jail.

he got drunk and shoplifted a beer (and the little nit had money in his pocket when he did it!).

someone in the prosecutor's office decided to give him a break, and instead of a stint in the county pokey he got to go to the 'offender's country club', and, most importantly, he decided to try the alcohol rehab classes they offered.
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change and stress
by Mommie Dark in
1. watchtower
2. medical
i've been under medical/psychological treatment for prolonged distress stress disorder and severe depression for several years.

after a runaway ride on the rainbow pharmaceutical wheel, a retro-looking doctor gave me old reliable prozac... and it lit today in high relief for the first time in my living memory.

it was a good thing, martha.. for the first time in my life i felt that today was real, and that this moment was complete and intact and entirely void of dread.. amazing!.
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Food TV and other cable delites
by Mommie Dark in
1. social
2. entertainment
is anybody else a foodie?

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fans of comedy central and bravo?
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a poem I wrote
by Mommie Dark in
1. social
2. entertainment
i hope it's ok to just hop in here and post.

i wrote this on reply to a fundamentalist born-againer who would not stop preaching at a message board no matter how politely (or otherwise) he was asked/told/screamed at.

i am not quite so peeved at churchianity these days but it still expressed my feelings pretty well.. religion.
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Best of times, worst of times
by Mommie Dark in
1. jw
2. friends
life is so not black-and-white, either/or, us-versus-them!

life is such a rich pageant, such a glorious heady brew of perfume and musk and spice and manure and mold and rot, sometimes all in the same little experience!...i used to let this stuff make me crazy, trying to find the patterns, the meaning, the reasons for the absurd details of daily existence.

since i quit measuring everything against the big sovereignty/salvation yardstick, i try to just let things happen, and lately i'm delighted more and more at the quirky propinquity of good and bad in every experience.
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Simon is a true gentleman
by Mommie Dark in
1. jw
2. friends
went to waterworld to find out what had prompted the mildmannered simon to post as he did the other day.

simon, i genuflect in your general direction.

you are truly a decent soul.
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It's ALL good today
by Mommie Dark in
1. jw
2. friends
because today is mommie and papa dark's tenth wedding anniversary!

the mil took us out to dinner last night; it was very nice.

today i get to go see my sister!!!
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tears of sorrow, tears of joy
by Mommie Dark in
1. jw
2. friends
coming out of this religion nearly killed me.

every single core belief i ever held has been mangled, strangled, drawn&quartered, dipped in pitch and burnt and reduced to carbon ash.

my mind and heart got buried in the soulquake; a protoplasmic blob of rage of pain of stifled grief was all that remained of the human who was born me in lodi ohio.
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Poor JW children again (touching a sore tooth)
by Mommie Dark in
1. jw
2. friends
i've been reading the thread about children and brooding over the whole issue of kids-n-cults for a couple of days now.

yesterday i had to outwait a group of immovable amish youth blocking the doorway out of the local grocery store(to many local amish, 'english' are generally invisible unless they want to sell us something.

), and they got mixed into the brain stew with the jw kids and the recent moral self-righteousness of certain jw posters here.